Bethany Woke Services

In this space just a month or so ago I had the deep displeasure of having to chasten what used to be Bethany Christian Services. They were ditching their commitment to Christ in favor of a commitment to the world. Their board of directors had determined that moving forward they would facilitate adoptions by practicing perverts. I suggested that they saw the handwriting on the wall. With the Equality Act gaining steam they got out in front in order to stay on the federal tax support gravy train.

Not surprisingly this stunning decision has proven to not be the last stop on the train, the terminal on their slippery slope. Newsweek recently reported:

“In a startling new report, Bethany Christian Services, one of the largest adoption agencies in the country, announced that allowing white families to adopt Black children from the foster care system ‘can cause a lot of harm to children of color.’ As a result, the agency favors ‘overhauling’ the Multi-Ethnic Placement Act, which bars racial discrimination in placing a child into an adoptive family. As part of its ‘long journey toward becoming an anti-racist organization,’ Bethany’s leaders now believe a child’s race should be considered “as part of the best interest determination for child placement.”

Count me among those who are less than startled by this report. It makes perfect sense for an agency which calls itself Christian and that supports adoption by practicing perverts. Why wouldn’t they determine that their commitment to being an “anti-racist” organization means making race a part of a child’s placement plan? These two concepts share this in common- they are both utterly unbiblical, absolutely cultural and completely indefensible.

Earlier this month, in another piece, I affirmed, confident that there was nothing in the least bit provocative in it, this of our two youngest, “Our two dark skinned teenage boys know before they are dark skinned, teenaged or boys, that they are Sprouls.” Their identity is wrapped up in their forever family, not the melanin level. Our identity, all four of us, is wrapped up in Jesus. This happens through Christian adoption, something Bethany clearly knows nothing about.

There are times when I put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard to remind Christians feeding on a steady diet of Fox News to put away their fears. Jesus still reigns, and the marginalization of the Christian faith is all part of His plan for our good and His glory. There are times my target audience is the Chicken Little Caucus. Other times, however, I write to let my brothers and sisters know the broader culture just boarded a hand basket scheduled to soon arrive in hell. This is one of those latter cases. The difference, more often than not, is not found in the severity of the error, but in the names of the ones falling for it. That is, this kind of nonsense is to be expected from the influential, the esteemed, the haughty. That’s nothing new. What is new is people naming the name of Christ taking up this anti-Christian cause. May God be pleased to send His Spirit to lead Bethany’s leaders away from Bethany and to Calvary.